These eyes are snakes: "In one area of Costa Rica alone, a team of researchers... have discovered hundreds of species of moths and butterflies whose caterpillars or chrysalises display false eye and face patterns that mimic those of snakes, lizards or other animals."

Evicted in Kirkland: "Tuesday the rent came due for the mansion squatters, a woman and man who last week just moved in and tried to stake claim to a 8,000-square-foot, foreclosed house in Kirkland that is for sale for $3.3 million."

Free punch: "Hours after a South Precinct police officer received community complaints for the videotaped punch of a young woman at a jaywalking stop, police union president Rich O'Neill made his position on the officer clear. 'He did nothing wrong,' O'Neill said. 'If anything, I think he maybe waited a little too long to engage in force because I think he was trying to defuse the situation...'"

Ten days, over one hundred dead: "Narcotics-related warfare has flared up in recent days in Mexico. Ten federal police officers were killed in twin ambushes in the state of Michoacan on Monday. An unknown number of gunmen were also killed or injured in the battle, but the surviving assailants carried off their wounded, as Ken Ellingwood reports in The Times. In the resort city of Mazatlan, the death toll rose to 29 on Tuesday in a shoot-out inside a prison on Monday morning..."

Flooding in France: "Flash floods caused by torrential rain killed 15 people and left 12 missing near France's Mediterranean coast, local officials said on Wednesday. 'Draguignan was the worst-hit town, with hundreds of vehicles swept away and several neighborhoods under water,' the local prefect Hugues Parant told France Bleu Provence radio. He said the number of casualties could rise."

Closing arguments for Prop 8: "A federal judge in California will hear closing arguments today in the landmark legal case that will determine the constitutionality of California's same-sex marriage ban, first approved by voters as Proposition 8 in November 2008."

Obama Meets with BP: "The BP executives, which also included the company’s chief executive, Tony Hayward, and Lamar McKay, the head of BP America, were seen walking somberly into the West Wing of the White House just before 10 a.m. for the meeting with Mr. Obama that was scheduled to last 20 minutes.The president is expected to speak to reporters around midday in the Rose Garden concerning the results of the meeting."